RAWALPINDI, Aug 25: At least 35 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan on Sunday, including 12 pilgrims who had been trying to reach Iran, rescue and hospital officials said.
Twenty-three people were killed when the bus they were travelling in plunged into a ravine near the town of Azad Pattan on the border between Punjab province and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
Sameena Khan, the head of Tehsil Headquarter Hospital in the town of Kahuta, told AFP that twenty-three bodies had been recovered from the crash site.
"I have lost three members of my family," Tara Zafar, who travelled to the hospital after hearing about the accident, told AFP.
Her father, sister and one-year-old nephew were among the dead.
"I hoped that at least one of them had survived. It's doomsday for my family." —AFP
